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DemoDoG
February 11th, 2009, 16:26
Anyone knows when next snapshot will be released on ftp? It has been none since 5 december. i like to install new computers from them, not having to get all the src updated.

Or is there a 8.0-beta coming up soon? :-P
ale
February 11th, 2009, 22:49
I'm waiting the snapshot too!

http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html#schedule
danger@
February 11th, 2009, 22:55
8.0-beta should be around in the summer time...
Mel_Flynn
February 11th, 2009, 23:28
Anyone knows when next snapshot will be released on ftp? It has been none since 5 december. i like to install new computers from them, not having to get all the src updated.

Roll your own:
cd /usr/src/release
read the Makefile

Be advised that CHROOTDIR is assumed to be empty, and will be made empty if it's not.
danger@
February 11th, 2009, 23:31
I have just been told that the snapshots were broken for some time now. Thankfully, Ken Smith has fixed them and the February builds are currently in progress.

Please check later this week...
ale
February 11th, 2009, 23:32
Great!
DemoDoG
February 12th, 2009, 11:15
great news! thanx alot
DemoDoG
February 19th, 2009, 16:08
still waiting... arghhh :-))
Djn
February 19th, 2009, 21:54
Alternatively, you can build it yourself. Just use csup to grab CURRENT, read /usr/src/UPDATING, and buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/reboot/installworld. It's not overly complicated, and kind of fun to have done (at least once).

There's a handbook page here (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html). The recommendations there are all good ideas, but for a "I just want to test new stuff, if it breaks then that's not a problem" kind of use it's perhaps a touch overengineered. Oh, and use csup, not cvsup: It's in the base system.
DemoDoG
February 20th, 2009, 07:27
Yes I know, in fact I have done csup before. It´s just that I am going to format the computer and start over so I thought I just wait for the new snapshot so I dont have to do the csup, I guess I´m lazy :-)
ale
March 1st, 2009, 13:50
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200902

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
DemoDoG
March 2nd, 2009, 15:07
Yeah finally!! Although I can´t get the files yet but it seems to be on its way :-P
DemoDoG
March 2nd, 2009, 18:53
dunno why the /200902 folder exists in the Swedish ftp mirror but not on the original one
ale
March 2nd, 2009, 22:28
dunno why the /200902 folder exists in the Swedish ftp mirror but not on the original one
/200902 maybe doesn't, but /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200902 does, in
ftp.freebsd.org.
Maybe it's the contrary: this morning I've checked many europeans mirrors for 200902 but in vain.
DemoDoG
March 3rd, 2009, 10:52
Yes, finally it´s there:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200902/
DemoDoG
March 5th, 2009, 13:45
Just my luck. When the 200902 snapshot finally arrived and I have installed it on my usb stick it seems that there is a bug with the new usb2 stack that makes it non-bootable from usb. Have seen the problem on the currentlists but no workaround. So unless someone have an idea it´s back to old 200812 snappy again :-(
DemoDoG
March 17th, 2009, 08:49
It seems that the snapshots has been taken away from ftp sites again.
ale
March 17th, 2009, 23:38
I can still see it, and with the old date, e.g.:8.0-CURRENT-200902-i386-disc1.iso 449868 KB 02/26/09 17:02:00